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COLUMBUS 



DISCOVERY DAY 



€verdstsfor tbc disc of ^djoofs anb .^rabcmies 




JOHN KEYNTON 



supeiuntendknt of schooi<s, kearney, n. j. ; author of 
"arbor day exercises," etc., etc 







NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS 
UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

1892 



CoPTBiOHT, ISD:^, 
By UNiVKa><iTT I'l hi.isi.inu Comtany 



1378 



Press of .T. .1. Little & Co. 
Aetor Flace, New York 



PIIEFATOKY NOTE. 

The approach of the 400th Anniversary of tlic discovery of 
America, and the necessity for condensed and appropriate sciiool 
exercises to coiiuueniorate the event, have proinj)te<l tiie writer 
to prepare tiie following dialogue. 

The platforming effects and costuming may he iiia<le elabo- 
rately or otherwise, according to the means at hand. Scenery 
antl curtain may be used, if convenient ; but are not essential. 
Of (H)iirse, individual taste and judgment must be exercised in 
the formation and grouping of the different tableaux to make 
them effective. 

Trusting this little entertainment will nieel with the apinoval 
of school officers and of his co-laborers in the educational field, 
the author remains their devoted friend, 

J. K. 

August aOTH, 1892. 



SPEAKING CHARACTERS : 

Okiano, an Indian Maiden. 

Genius of Amekica. 

Genius of Discovery, 
Pko(tRkss. Science. 

Akt. Tkade. 

Industry, North, 

South. East, 

West. 

CHARAC'I^KlfS IX TABLEAUX 

Fkiidinand and Isarklla. 

Columbus. Washington. 

Sailors, Indians. 



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COLUMBTTS 



[No scenery is required in the representation. The platform 
or stage is to be arranged with a curtain at the back, behind 
which the Tableaux are to be shown. 

The characters, such as Trade, Art, Science, etc., are lo 
wear sliields bearing their titles.] 



Oriano, an Indian Maiden, is discovered sleejring. 
She /cakes, rises and comes forward. 

Oeiano. 

That dream ! awake, I see it still ! 
The stranger comes these lands to fill ! 
I see vast winged birds that float 
Upon the waves, from shores remote ! 
Pale faces of an unknown race 
My vision now can dimly trace ! 
Whence come they ? Are they spirits sent 
To how our hearts in chastisement ? 
Or do tliey come from skies above 
To bless, to comfort us with love ? 
So happy here our homes have been. 
Amid these dells and valleys green ; 
It cannot 1)e, Thou Spirit Great, 
That grief upon our lives shall wait ; 
A step I who is it wends this way ? 



COLUMBUS. 



Enter Genius of Discovery. 

*Tis I, oh, dusky niMideu, pray 

Fly not afar," thy dream I'll tell, 

Its meaning I'll interpret well. 

These vales shall see a people grand, 

The hour is even now at hand. 

AVhere now the^ wigwam's smoke is curled, 

Shall be a vast and bright new world I 

Fair cities shall these wilds o'ersprend. 

And busy crowds their streets shall tread. 

HI A NO. 

My vision I Come you from tlie skies ? 

\Kneels. 

CtBnius of Discovery. 

Nay, mortal am I ; maiden, rise. 
Across the seas, through dangers dire, 
A mariner, with soul of fire. 
Speeds on his way these shores to gain. 
I marked him when a tiny boy. 
With earnest heart and brow of joy. 
One purpose liis, to manhood grown — 
IMie search for seas and lands unknown. 
From court to court, with weary feet, 
Yet undismayed, did he entreat 
For means, for caravels, to aid 
His daring purjiose, dusky maid. 
Behold him at the throne of Spain 
His mighty cause plead once again ! 



COLUMBUS. 







Q^htez.\i I 



Chirtain at bach of jjlatform 'parts and sJ/otcs Ta- 
llean. Ferdijstand and Isabella seated on tlirone. 
Courtiers riglit and left. Columbus 07i tiended knee, 
pleading. 

Okiano. 

My fatherland shall pass a\vay 
From those who lins^er here to-day I 



Genius of DiscovKitY, 



Ay, as the dew before the sun ! 
Their doom is even now l)t>!^un. 



fOLI'MBUS. 

l{ I A N (). 

SOXG. All! : '■ .1 tl (1)1 11(1. '' 

Fiirewell, tliou Home-Laud. 

Far from thee we must depart ! 
Long will thy mem'ries 

Liuger in my heart ! 
Where our fathers lingered. 

Now the stranger's feet shall roam 
('omes the pale usurper 

O'er the ocean's foam ! 

Farewell. Oriauo. 
Soon thy home shall be afar ! 

Farewell, Oriano, 
Fades thy people's star ! 



Farewell these valleys 

Where my childhood's feet liave straved I 
No more I'll wander 



'Mid the flow'ry glad 



From my liome so happy. 

Now, alas, my steps depart ! 
Yet these scenes forever 

Live within my heart ! 

Farewell, Oriano. 
Soon thy home must be afar I 

Farewell, Oriano, 
Fades thy j^eople's star I 

{Exit Oriano. 



COLUMBl'y. 



Genius of Discovery. 

The Old is past, the New we hail. 

We hear its voice upon the gale ! 

These lands shall know the plowshare's steel, 

The rumhle of the laboring wheel ; 

1'he clatter of the busy mill 

Shall fall among these valleys still. 

[Enter, hand in hand, Pkouress, Trade, Art, 
Science and Industry. 

PKO(iRK8S. 

[To (fKNU'S OF DiSCOVKRV. 

Welcome ! without xowv fi-iendly aid, 
My march would be indeed delayed. 
In yvain my steps would seek to climb 
The heights that reach to realms sublime. 

Trade. 
[To (JENius OF Discovery. 

My marts Avould slumber everywhere 
Without your zealous, fostering care. 
My ships would rotten grow in ])ort. 
Of Sloth and Disuse be the sport. 

Art. 

[To Genius of Discovery. 

I, too, upon your aid depend. 

W^ings to my flight your zeal doth lend : 

New fields, new regions to explore 

You give, and worlds ne'er known before. 



10 > COLUMBUS. 



Science. 

I To Genius of Discovery. 

And I, like Art. on you depend, 
And see in you a faithful friend. 
Far in the Future do I view 
A thousand wonders, sparkling, new. 

Industry. 

[7b txENIUS OF DiSrOVERY. 

New S2:)heres for me 'tis yours to give. 
By honest toil 'tis mine to live ; 
Without me what were all their zeal ? 
Mine is the power that speeds the wheel, 
That runs the loom — you know this well 
My voice rings in the factory hell ! 

Genius of Discovery. 

[To Trahe, Art and Sciexce. 

An-^ra new for all beliold ! 
'Tis in the myriad phinets told. 
Columbus, proud and peerless one — 
Of Genius he the latest son — 
Uj^on my quest now sails the sea. 
From Palos not long out is he. 
'Mid dangers wild he struggles still. 
Now baffling winds his pathway fill. 
Now mutiny assails ; but all 
Cannot his energies ajjpall I 
Behold what dangers threaten him 
Amid tlie waters wild and dim ! 



COLUMBUS 




The curtain at back is parted, and shows Tableau. 
Columbus ivith draivn sivord. His crew in threaten- 
ing attitudes gathered about him. Invisible chorus sing 
the following song : 



Air : " Life 0)i the Ocean Wave.' 

The waves on the midnight wild 

Now gather in anger dire ; 
By their fears and doubts beguiled, 

See the crew with hearts of ire ! 
To the waters they would give 

Yonder dauntless one, their friend ! 
But He who hath marked his course 

Will ne'er let his spirit bend ! 



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The waves on the midnight wild 

Now gather in anger dire ; 
By their fears and doubts beguiled. 
See the crew with hearts of ire ! 
See the crew ! See the crew ! 
See the crew Avith hearts of ire ! 

[^Repeat till curtain closes. 

Genius of Discovery. 

So sails he on the path assigned 
By Heaven's decree, with tranquil mind ! 
Unheeding threat, and scoffj and frown, 
Nearing Fame's bright, immortal crown I 
{Enter Genius of America, attended hij North, 
South, East and AVest. 

Genius of America. 

Hail to you from the seas afar ! 
Led hither by yon western star I 
We waiting stand, with listening ear, 
Your prophet-voice again to hear I 
What marvels shall the Future ])ring , 
Oh, answer us, prophetic King ! 

North. 
We wait ! 

South. 
Oh, sj^eak ! 



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East. 

Wliiit fate is ours ? 

West. 

Shall we develop all onr powers ? 

Genius of Discovery. 
All I Swiftly comes the golden time ! 

PllOGRESS. 

The liand points toward the morning's chime ! 
I see in visions, grand and bright, 
Thy Future unrolled to my sight ! 

[To Genius ov America. 

Rich cities tower upon the j^lain ! 

Vast fields of waving golden grain ! 

Thy land forevermore shall be 

The blessed Home of Liberty ! 

Thy children, brave, contented, great, 

To plow the field, to rule the state. 

All other lands shall emulate ! 

North, South, East, West, with links of gold. 

In thee eternal Union hold ! 

The North, Avith cities grand arrayed — 

Trade. 
I consecrate to Wealth and Trade ! 



14 COLUMBUS. 



Genius of Discovery. 
Tlie 8oiith— 

South. 
My Cotton sliall be King ! 

Science. 
The Cotton Gin, I lieai- it ring! 

Genius of Discovery. 
The East— 

Art. 

From countless factories, 
The smoke is curling on the breeze ! 
.The West— 

West. 
Behold my garnered grain '. 

Scienci:. 

And mark my reapers dot each plain I 
The Lightning, too, my hands shall chain 

Industry. 

My influence shall leaven all. 
And banish every baleful thrall. 



COLUMBUS. 15 



Genius of America, 

Oh. prophet, liow may these tilings be ? 
Mine eyes tlie Future cannot see 
Like thine. 

Whence conies tlie power 
That yields these things unto my dower ? 

Genius of Discovery. 

These, ay, and riches all untold. 

The source, by Heaven's will, I'll show. 

But who is this with footsteps slow. 

And features sad ? Where would she go ? 

The Indian maid doth sorrow know. 

\_Tlie platform is (iradiKiJhj lUirkened. 

Ente^r Oriano. In her IkduI is a li(jlitcd torch. 
Genius of Discovery, Genius of America, North, 
South, East and West, Progress, Trade, Science, 
Art and Industry retire to side of platform. 

Oriano. 

My Aveary vigil I must keep ! 

With eyes long gazing o'er the deep, 

I stand upon my native shore, 

AVhose beauties I may see no more ! 

'Tis here I've rambled as a child, 

Amid these scenes so loved, so wild. 

My heart is sad to leave them now — 

Must Oriano hojieless bow ? 

Oh, waves, keep back the stranger's hand 

That threatens to despoil our land I 



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COLUMBUS. 



The spirit of my race now cries, 
And conjures you, oh, waves, to rise 
And overwlielm tliose wlio would blight 
Our happy homes with swords of might ! 

(tenius of Discovery. 

To Oriano. 

Nay, maiden, even while you speak. 
Behold ! the land is near they seek ! 




Oriano shrinks to side of i)latform, as if in fear, 
still holding aloft the lighted torch. The curtain at 
hack is parted, and discloses the Tahlean. Colum- 



COLUMBUS. . 17 



BUS pointing towanU the light, his creiv with jny 
surrounding him. The inrisihJe chorus sings the 
folio iring song : 

Land Ho ! 

Am : Sailing. 

Land Ho ! Land Ho ! 'tis jnst in siglit ! 
See, yonder beams the joyful light ! 
And soon we'll tread the welcome shore. 
With all our dangers past and o'er ! 
For days we've braved the dark and stormy sea, 
For days we've watched for land upon our lee; 
Good-by to the tempest, the shore that we sought 

is near. 
Welcome it, ye sailor lads, with songs of cheer ! 
Land Ho ! Land Ho ! 

Over the midnight sea, 
And merrily to the shore we sail. 

For happy hearts have we ! 
Land Ho ! Land Ho ! 

Over the midnight sea. 
Oh, merrily to the shore we sail. 
For happy hearts have Ave ! 

Land Ho ! Land Ho ! no more we'll sail. 

The sport of every idle gale ; 

No more we'll sweep the billows' crest. 

In yonder groves are peace and rest ! 
What joy to know that far in sunny Spain 
Our loved ones dear will welcome us again ! 
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18 COLUMBUS. 



Farewell to the tempest ; the shore that we sought 

is near, 
Welcome it, ye sailor lads, with songs of cheer ! 
Land Ho ! Land Ho ! 

Over the midnight sea, 
And merrily to the shore we sail, 

For happy hearts have we ! 
Land Ho ! Land Ho I etc. , 

\(ts dhove.] 

Oriano. 

Alas ! my heart, in its despair, 

Sighs for my people everywhere ! 

I go to warn them of their doom. 

For dark the clouds now o'er them loom. 

And all around I see hut gloom ! 

[F.rit Okiano. 

Genius of Discovery. 
The hour approaches ! 

Progress. 

Comes the Dawn, 
The curtains of the night are drawn I 

[7'Jte pla/fo7'm giutdimlly gets Ugliter. 

Genius of America. 

I seem to see, with vision clear. 
The portents of each coming year ! 
Bright vistas open to my view. 



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Genius of Discovery. 
Farewell tlie Old ! Welcome the New ! 

Progress. 

[To Genius of America. 

My hand thy steps shall onward guide. 

Science. 
I'll walk forever at thy side. 

Art. 
And I keep pace with every stride. 

Trade. 
My paths shall circle thee. 

Industry. 

And I 

Shall all thy earthly needs supply. 

Genius of America. 

Oh, glories far heyond the dream 
Of poets now before me gleam ! 
From out the spreading wilderness, 
I see the homes of plenty bless 
My people, and my nation's star 
Gleam out to welcome from afar 
The countless millions of opprest. 
And bid them here find peace and rest ! 



30 COLUMBUS. 



XOKTH. 

My marts are open to tlie world ! 

South. 

My sunny land, with joy i in pearled, 
Shall grow in mightiness ! 

East. 

And mine ! 

West. 

True brothers we, our hands entwine ! 
[North, South, East and ^Yis^r join haniU 

Genius op Discovery. 

[7'o America. 

America, all cliildrijii thine ! 

Song. Air : '-America." 

Oh, Land that soon shall be 
The shrine of Liberty 

For all the earth ! 
What countless years shall ring 
With praise to Glory's King, 
While hearts of freedom sing 

His endless worth ! 

Oh, Land of Truth and Light, 
That springs from darkest night, 



COLUMBUS. 21 



Thy birth we see ! 
Cohimbus speeds from far 
To herald Freedom's star ! 
No clond thy course shall mar. 

Sweet Liberty ! 

Genius of Discovery. 



Oh, lesson for the wondering world ? 
I see white sails in harbor furled ! 
Oh, lesson for the heart of youth. 
Of daring, enterprise and truth I 
Though baffled oft, yet unsubdued. 
Battling the billows, rood on rood, 
With one grand purpose that he kept. 
And pondered o'er, whilst others slept — 
To gain a world ! 

Pkogress. 

The time's at hand, 
]^y (Jod designed, by Heaven planned I 

Genius of America. 

What is this stirs my inmost soul 
With feelings that are past control ? 

Genius of Discovery. 

Led by my spirit, with God's aid. 
Behold Columbus, undismayed ! 
The Land is found ! Now pseans rise 
Of praise and love to arching skies ! 



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Curtain at hack is parted, and dispta//s Tableau. 
"The Landing of Columbus." In the foreyrouiKl 
Columbus is seen Icneeling. The standard of Spain 
is held in, one hand, in the other he grasps a sword. 
His crew are Tcneeling. Indians gaze with wonder. 
The following hymn is sung hy an invisible chortis: 



Am : '-Old Ilundred.'' 



Praise (Jod, wlio rules the earth and sea, 
Praise God, our Lord Eternally ! 
The Land we sought, through gloomy night, 
He now hath brought unto our sight ! 



COLUMBUS. 23 



Ye hills and vales, His praise prolong ! 
Loiul echo your Creator's song ! 
With grateful hearts we bow before 
The Lord of Hosts whom we adore ! 

His hand hath led through pathless seas ; 
His breath was still our wafting breeze ; 
All honor yield to Him alone. 
While humbly bending at His throne ! 

Praise Him, for all our dangers past ! 
Praise Him, ye waters wild and vast ! 
Praise Him, ye woods, from shore to shore ! 
Praise God, whom all our hearts adore ! 

Progkess. 

'Now forward speeds the way sublime ! 
The world wakes with thy birthday chime, 
America ! 

Genius of America. 

The world shall see 
The fruits of glorious Liberty ! 

Progress. 

Before my vision are unrolled 

The years that now thy Future hold. 

I see, assembled on thy shore. 

The Pilgrims that the Mayflower bore 

From homes oppressed, and on thy sod 

They freedom find to worship God ! 



24 COLUMBUS. 



I see the smoke of battle rise 
^Neath Revolutionary skies ! 
I hear a Henry's grand appeal 
The spirit of thy soul reveal ! 
I see thy glorious Washington, 
Columbia's grand, immortal son ! 
From Lexington's dark, bloody day 
I mark thy proud, triumphant way ! 

Trade. 
My marts still wider grow. 

Akt. 

And 1 
31y labors "mid tby cities ply. 
xVnd with the oldest nations vie ! 

Science. 

To mention wliat of good I've done, 
I've but to speak of Edison ! 

Industry. 

My busy hands have cities made. 
On barren plain, in tangled glade' 

Trade. 

Ships gather to my ports, and bring 
The wide world's boundless olfering. 



COLUMBUS. 



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Genius of Discovery. 
All this the Future years shall see ; 
But for one moment gaze with me ! 
The finder of a Xew World — where 
Should linger he "neatli skies so fair ? 
Caressed by wealth and honors bright. 
His sovereigns' and his land's delight ; 
With wealth and jiower at his command. 
And all that makes life proudly grand ; 
With ease of mind and sweetest rest. 
That followed on his deathless quest ; — ■ 
See where he lies in dungeon dark, 
His liapless fate pause ye to mark ! 




Tableau disclosed. Columbus in chains. Jailer 
witli keys in hand, just entering his cell. Columbus 
with hoived head. An invisible chorus sings the 
following song : 



26 " COLL'MBUS. 



Air : " The Shilling Sl/on'." 

The Angels to that Home of Rest 

Thy spirit now are calling ! 
By sorrow's hand so long opprest. 

The shadows deep are falling ! 
But Light is dawning from afar. 

The Land of Hope is nearing ! 
And o'er yon tide the Angel guide 

Will lead thee on unf earing ! 

No more th}^ heart shall feel despair. 

No longer life shall languish ; 
For joy awaits thy coming there 

From earthly gloom and anguish ! 
For Light is dawning from afar. 

The Land of Hope is nearing ! 
And o'er yon tide the Angel guide 

Will lead thee on unfearing ! 

Genius of America. 

Oh, star, that till Time's latest day. 
Li Fame's clear sky, with peerless ray, 
Shall gleam, thus perish oft thy kind, 
'Mid loathsome Error, dark and hlind ' 

Genus of Discovery. 

Still hallowed in our inmost heart, 
His memory shall ne'er de])art ; 
But like a meteor shall be 
His deeds until Eternity ! 



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Industry, 



Still clangs my hammer on the air. 

Still rise m\' domes, my mansions fair. 

My schools, whence Freedom takes its birth ! 

AVhere Education holds its sway. 

There Despotism must decay. 

And all its many ills ! 

Progress. 

My flight 
Within the schoolroom first saw light, 
And sped afar from height to height ! 

Trade. 

'Tis Education makes to thrive 
The busy bees within my hive ! 

Science. 

And Education's self am I, 
Soaring along, from sky to sky ! 
Where learned my votaries their rule ? 
Within the grand, the mighty School ! 

Genius of America. 

The Free Schools my strongholds shall be — 
Palladium of my Liberty ! 

North. 
Long shall we foster them with care ! 



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South. 

All that is o-ood wo ti-casure tliere I 

East. 

Know ye the safeguards of our land ? 
Our Free Schools I 

West. 

Froodom's hirthright g-rand ! 

Progress. 

Treasure the memories of the Past ! 

Let them in hearts forever last ! 

Keep we one day to glorify 

Earth's heroes, as the years go by. 

To old and young the story tell 

Of those brave souls invincible. 

That wrought the world undying good, 

That link mankind in brotherhood. 

Through noble deeds that shall not die, 

l^ut Time forevermore defy ! 

Coluuibus ! through the ages thou 

A lesson to us shalt endow 

Of courage fearless, purpose true — 

Oh, lion heart, to dare, to do ! 

Here, in thy World, stand side by side. 

In greatness almost deified, 

AVith Freedom's grand, immortal son, 

Columbia's peerless Washington ! 



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TdbU'du. J p(iiI/eo.<:is of CoLVMBVfi and AVashing- 
TOiSr. YxME 2}Ifirin// crowns of laurels on their hrows. 
The folio wing song is sung. 



Air 



Red While ami Jllnr." 



C'olumlms, tliy inein'iy forever 

Sluill live ill the Land of the Free ! 
And Washington, nought e'er shall sevei' 

The hearts of thy people from thee ! 
Your deeds, crowned with fame and with glory, 

Shall point us a lesson so true ; 
And ages will list to your story, 

While told 'neath the Red, White and Blue ! 
While told, etc. 



30 COLUMBUS. 

Air: ^'Battle Cry of Freedom.'' 

Of our Washington so noble we the story oft sliall tell, 

Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom ! 
While we treasure independence whicli he fought for 
long and well, 
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom ! 
Hail we Columbus, hero sublime, 
Washington noble, heirs to all Time I 
While we keep within our hearts all their true and 
gallant deeds, 
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom I 

For the star-s])angled banner foi-ever shall wave 
O'er the land that Columbus to Washington gave ! 



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